Are there any movies of resistance fighters in world war 2?
Underground (American film about German resistance) The Day Will Dawn (British film about Norwegian resistance) Reunion In France (American film about French resistance helping a downed American pilot) Chetnicks! The Fighting Guerillas (American about Yugoslav guerillas) Hangmen Also Die (American film about Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by the Czech resistance) The North Star (American film about Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front) The Silver Fleet (British film about Dutch reistance) This Land Is Mine (American film about Fench resistance) Undercover (British film about Yugoslav guerrillas in Serbia) Days Of Glory (American film about Soviet partisans) Back To Bataan (American film about guerilla warfare in the Philippines during the battle of Leyte) There are many more non-english resistance movies from Italy,Philippines,Poland and other countries.
The Resistance during World War 2?
Many other countries had a resistance movement during World War II. The best and most efficient were often organised by the Communist Party in that country. France, Yugoslavia, Greece and Norway are some of the countries that had a resistance movement in Europe. There was also Jewish resistance in the Ghettos in Eastern Europe. Resistance groups became particularly active once the allied invasion of Europe began, taking part in everything from assassination to sabotage. There's a list of notable individuals on the wikipedia page below, but I'm afraid I don't know any of them - you'll need to do some research to find out more. Active and violent resistance is not the only way people can resist occupation. There are also more passive, everyday things that people do, like refusing to cooperate, staying silent and even just simply surviving that could also be classed as resistance. This went on throughout Europe. It might be worth also mentioning in your presentation.
In World War 2, how much effect did the resistance forces of occupied Europe have on the duration or ultimate outcome of the war?
More than just significant, crucial. The real war was for the hearts and minds of men. Vichy France was a threat. To fund a resistance and let local people decide how much they were prepared to risk was the only game in town. Thanks to Philby and co, British agents were mopped up by the Gestapo with amazing rapidity so it had to be the French partisan that bore the brunt. Without the resistance and a constant flow of clandestine information about the incredibly huge attacks being planned on Germany morale would have wavered. Every little pinprick dented Gestapo and Vichy propaganda. Every time a railway line parted, there was hope. There is only one film of the first wave landings on Normandy, on a British beach, and the house front and centre of all those films was owned by a family whose 3 year old son is now a friend. In the film you can see the house is taking a terrible battering. I asked Jean if he remembered that day, and he replied that he didn't remember much because the resistance had got them all into the crypt of the local church before it happened, so while all hell broke out around them they were in the bowels of the earth, doing whatever French people do under such circumstances. The resistance did much more than ride around on their bicycles in tight skirts seducing German soldiers whilst their boyfriends put fireworks under railway lines. That's reserved for some of the dreadful Hollywood nonsenses. Max Hastings is not the font of all historical accuracy.
What was the Jewish Resistance during World War 2?
There were over a hundred armed jewish uprisings in Germany during the Nazi rule. The historian Martin Gilbert answers your question nicely "In every ghetto, in every deportation train, in every labor camp, even in the death camps, the will to resist was strong, and took many forms. Fighting with the few weapons that would be found, individual acts of defiance and protest, the courage of obtaining food and water under the threat of death, the superiority of refusing to allow the Germans their final wish to gloat over panic and despair. Even passivity was a form of resistance. To die with dignity was a form of resistance. To resist the demoralizing, brutalizing force of evil, to refuse to be reduced to the level of animals, to live through the torment, to outlive the tormentors, these too were acts of resistance. Merely to give a witness of these events in testimony was, in the end, a contribution to victory. Simply to survive was a victory of the human spirit." In the Warsaw ghetto jews with light firearms and molotov cocktails attack the Nazi's unsuccessfully before being murdered or deported to concentration camps. Across german territory jewish resistance was fierce particulary in concentration camps. At Treblinka guns were smuggled out of the armory using a forged key and transported around the prison in garbage bins, the jews attacked with a loss of 1,500 lives although 70 people were thought to have escaped. A simliar event occured at Sobibór concentration camp and 300-600 inmates managed to escape. Other methods of resistance used by the jews included sabotaging industry and infastructure, gathering intelligence for the Allies and distributing anti-nazi leaflets and propoganda. Many jews moved to eastern europe where guerilla warfare was common inside the partisan groups. They used ambush and hit and run tactics to persistently harrass the nazi's. Although there was little chance of securing freedom for other jews in such a remote area they still held frequent success fighting the Nazi war machine.
How did the resistance movements aid the allies during world war 2?
By carrying acts of Sabotage to supply trains, troop trains, and communications. They also reported on Troop movements, or a build up of enemy troops in certain areas.
What exactly was the french resistance?
I think you mean the French Resistance during the Second World War. The Resistance started when Germany used its troops to occupy France. French people, together with some foreigners, started secret operations to resist the occupation and to try to sabotage German military operations. The Resistance was an underground guerilla movement within occupied France. It got some assistance from England and, after December 1941, from the U.S. After the D-Day invasion of Normandy, many Resistance fighters fought in regular combat against the Germans. There were many Jews in France prior to World War II, though not a many as in Germany, Poland, and Russia. For the most part, their French neighbors did little to protect the Jews of France, although there were some exceptions. Anti-Semitism was a popular viewpoint in France long before the Nazi movement (see the Dreyfus affair, for example), and there were many French people, especially on the political Right, who agreed with the German policy of deporting French Jews to concentration camps.
Was the French Resistance during the World War II occupation of France a terrorist organization?
No. Multiple factors why.First, France had been invaded and conquered by the Germans. A French Government in exile and Free French military forces existed in the UK. The continued to fight the Germans after the fall and surrender of France (for instance, at Bir Hakeim in North African against the DAK). The direction from the French Govt. in Exile was to resist.Second, look at the actions of the French Resistance. The assumption is that they were all running around, attacking German units, fighting with the SS. The reality is that most of the resistance were engaging in sabotage (so a railroad engine would break down, or orders to arrest certain civilians were delayed and those civilians warned, or Allied fliers who were shot down got refuge and then smuggled back to England). For the most part, the French Resistance wasn't especially violent and their efforts were, almost entirely, against the Germans.Third, look at their actions. I'm not going to argue that they were "clean" or of high ethical standards in how they fought. But there was very little to be gained by torturing or beheading Germans. There were some bombs planted, some Germans shot. But for the most part, most French grudgingly accepted the German occupation, a few people worked actively against it and a very small minority of that few engaged in violence against the Germans.A terrorist organization seeks to terrorize. It wants to scare people, it wants publicity. The French Resistance was interested in almost none of that. In fact, they were more likely (when a German was killed or an action was taken of some sort) to hide the result (so the Germans wouldn't know what happened).